“Your words and wishes are cheap if they do not find expression in your actual gifts.”

Before we can speak God’s message, we must learn to listen. The opened ear comes before the opened mouth.

Fear is born of Satan, and if we would only take time to think a moment we would see that everything Satan says is founded upon a falsehood.

The greatest need of our age and of every age, the greatest need of every human heart, is to know the resources and sufficiency of God.

Unless I am sure I am doing more at home to send the gospel abroad than I can do abroad, I am bound to go.

I like to interpose in all of my appointments, if the Lord wills.

It is all right when God sends us the approval of our fellow men; however, we must never make that approval a motive in our life.

God does not so much want us to do things as to let people see what He can do.

One bright and thankful look at the cross is worth a thousand morbid, self-condemning reflections.

Have we forgotten that there is a Holy Ghost, that we must insist upon walking on crutches when we might fly?

Difficulties and obstacles are God’s challenges to faith. When hindrances confront us in the path of duty, we are to recognize them as vessels for faith to fill with the fullness and all-sufficiency of Jesus.

The Holy Spirit is just as truly in us when He makes no sign as when the fountains of joy are overflowing, or the waters of peace are softly refreshing our weary and troubled heart.

Forget yourself and live for others, for It is more blessed to give than to receive.

Prayer is the mighty engine that is to move the missionary work.

All that God requires of us is an opportunity to show what He can do.

Prayer is the ascending vapor which supplies The showers of blessing, and the stream that flows Through earth’s dry places, till on every side “The wilderness shall blossom as the rose.

One touch of Christ is worth a lifetime of struggling.

This is getting funny, but there ain’t nobody laughing.

Silence is sometimes more significant and sublime than the most noble and most expressive eloquence, and is on many occasions the indication of a great mind.

Writing for me is a dragnet that carries everything away with it: expressions and figures of speech, postures, feelings, thoughts, troubles. In short, the lives of others.

Nature is not our enemy, to be raped and conquered. Nature is ourselves, to be cherished and explored.

Shamanism has always known this, and shamanism has always, in its most authentic expressions, taught that the path required allies.

Who wants to kill you? The guy asked. He was still looking over his shoulder, but his expression was puzzled. Theres nobody there, the girlfriend told me. Youre making them think they cant see you, arent you? I said to patch, awed by his power even as i despised his use of it.

Love was the most savage monster of all.

I wish I had invented blue jeans. They have expression, modesty, sex appeal, simplicity – all I hope for in my clothes.